Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 155
The boy let go his hold of the wall, and, as he stretched forth his hands, the aged son of Ishmael, exerting all the strength of his withered limbs, suddenly pushed him over the battlements.
Who acts: boy · What happens: let, go, stretch, exert, wither, push · To what, where: hold, hands, strength, boy, battlements, wall
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hold | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stretched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stretched | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 stretched | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stretched | nsubj |
| 15 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 stretched | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stretched | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 son | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 son | det |
| 21 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 son | amod |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stretched | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Ishmael | case |
| 24 | Ishmael | Ishmael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 son | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 exerting | punct |
| 26 | exerting | exert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 stretched | advcl |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 strength | det:predet |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 strength | det |
| 29 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 exerting | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 limbs | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 32 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 limbs | amod |
| 33 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 strength | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 pushed | punct |
| 35 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 36 pushed | advmod |
| 36 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pushed | obj |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 40 battlements | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 battlements | det |
| 40 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 pushed | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the boy | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the boy not said here | boy's hold of the wall | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch | past | boy | boy's hands | the aged son of Ishmael obl; forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 4 | exert | gerund | boy not said here | all strength of boy's withered limbs | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | push | past | the boy not said here | boy | the battlements | suddenly property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme over battlement=Trajectory | ||
| 7 | hold | boy | the wall | nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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